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opinated-user · 7 months ago

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I feel like it's time to shine a light on MOs immigration again:

For the uninitiated: November 2022 is when LO asked her fans to donate money for this process. December 2023 is when one fan finally asked what happened to the money (they gave a good amount) and LO claimed they had at this point submitted all the necessary paperwork and are in the background stage. It is Now September 2024.

All the following information is taken directly from the official Canadian government page:

1. During the pandemic average waiting times spousal immigration was around 12 months, it has since gone down to ten. MOs immigration therefore should be going through within the year.

2. Once you've submitted your paperwork you are eligible to apply for a working visa, that is easier and quicker to get than normal if you link it to your immigration, and move to and work in Canada. This will also show the authorities that you are willing and able to support yourself in your new home, thus have a positive impact on your process.

While we don't know MOs circumstances, she very clearly loves LO and wants to be with her + her living conditions in the US are very bad. So I'd assume she'd want to move asap.

The fact that no further updates have been given to fans who gave them money is already suspicious. Best case scenario these two are not very good at navigating government sites, worst case scenario LO is stringing her along and pocketed the money raised. Also LO claims to have a lawyer on standby, who she could then theoretically consult about any questions about the process. Weird all that.

(while I do not necessarily think moving in with LO would be good for MO, I even more do not want her hopes and dreams crushed)

actually, that is not all. it's my belief that LO not only does not have any intention of moving MO with her, she also has already misused the money that she gained from her followers for her own gain without any disclosure.

in that post i showed, with evidence that i gathered myself and LO herself provided, that is highly likely that LO spend the money from that fundraising on a desk. not only that, at the same time that LO was bragging about getting this new desk (two days after making that fundraising, then lying about it), she was also talking about getting a another desk, a more expensive one, for MO. a desk that only LO would end up using because, again, they don't live together. all of this we were talking about at the start of this year and nothing has changed.

for the record, if LO had just said openly "guys, i need urgently a new desk, i need to use this money", nobody would have a problem with it. if LO had done a fundraising for a new desk in the first place, nobody would care. streamers and youtubers ask donations from their fanbase to get new equipment all the time, that is normal. the lack of transparency is the issue here.

the issue is that LO over two years now promised, both to her audience and to MO, that she'd be working on the immigration process. she used other people's money in order to do that. they deserve to know what happened to that money.

#lily orchard #lily orchard is a scammer

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 5 months ago

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 26, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Nov 27, 2024

Today presented a good example of the difference between governance by social media and governance by policy.

Although incoming presidents traditionally stay out of the way of the administration currently in office, last night, Trump announced on his social media site that he intends to impose a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Trump claimed that they could solve the problem “easily” and that until they do, “it is time for them to pay a very big price!”

In a separate post, he held China to account for fentanyl and said he would impose a 10% tariff on all Chinese products on top of the tariffs already levied on those goods. “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he added.

In fact, since 2023 there has been a drop of 14.5% in deaths from drug overdose, the first such decrease since the epidemic began, and border patrol apprehensions of people crossing the southern border illegally have fallen to the lowest number since August 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. In any case, a study by the libertarian Cato Institute shows that from 2019 to 2024, more than 80% of the people caught with fentanyl at ports of entry—where the vast majority of fentanyl is seized—were U.S. citizens.

Very few undocumented immigrants and very little illegal fentanyl come into the U.S. from Canada.

Washington Post economics reporter Catherine Rampell noted that Mexico and Canada are the biggest trading partners of the United States. Mexico sends cars, machinery, electrical equipment, and beer to the U.S., along with about $19 billion worth of fruits and vegetables. About half of U.S. fresh fruit imports come from Mexico, including about two thirds of our fresh tomatoes and about 90% of our avocados.

Transferring that production to the U.S. would be difficult, especially since about half of the 2 million agricultural workers in the U.S. are undocumented and Trump has vowed to deport them all. Rampell points out as well that Project 2025 calls for getting rid of the visa system that gives legal status to agricultural workers. U.S. farm industry groups have asked Trump to spare the agricultural sector, which contributed about $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product in 2023, from his mass deportations.

Canada exports a wide range of products to the U.S., including significant amounts of oil. Rampell quotes GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, Patrick De Haan, as saying that a 25% tax on Canadian crude oil would increase gas prices in the Midwest and the Rockies by 25 cents to 75 cents a gallon, costing U.S. consumers about $6 billion to $10 billion more per year.

Canada is also the source of about a quarter of the lumber builders use in the U.S., as well as other home building materials. Tariffs would raise prices there, too, while construction is another industry that will be crushed by Trump’s threatened deportations. According to NPR’s Julian Aguilar, in 2022, nearly 60% of the more than half a million construction workers in Texas were undocumented.

Construction company officials are begging Trump to leave their workers alone. Deporting them “would devastate our industry, we wouldn’t finish our highways, we wouldn’t finish our schools,” the chief executive officer of a major Houston-based construction company told Aguilar. “Housing would disappear. I think they’d lose half their labor.”

Former trade negotiator under George W. Bush John Veroneau said Trump’s plans would violate U.S. trade agreements, including the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) that replaced the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement that Trump killed. The USMCA was negotiated during Trump’s own first term, and although it was based on NAFTA, he praised it as “the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law. It’s the best agreement we’ve ever made.”

Trump apologists immediately began to assure investors that he really didn’t mean it. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman posted that Trump wouldn’t impose the tariffs if “Mexico and Canada stop the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl into the U.S.” Trump’s threat simply meant that Trump “is going to use tariffs as a weapon to achieve economic and political outcomes which are in the best interest of America,” Ackman wrote.

Iowa Republican lawmaker Senator Chuck Grassley, who represents a farm state that was badly burned by Trump’s tariffs in his first term, told reporters that he sees the tariff threats as a “negotiating tool.”

Foreign leaders had no choice but to respond. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum issued an open letter to Trump pointing out that Mexico has developed a comprehensive immigration system that has reduced border encounters by 75% since December 2023, and that the U.S. CBP One program has ended the “caravans” he talks about. She noted that it is imperative for the U.S. and Mexico jointly to “arrive at another model of labor mobility that is necessary for your country and to address the causes that lead families to leave their places of origin out of necessity.”

She noted that the fentanyl problem in the U.S. is a public health problem and that Mexican authorities have this year “seized tons of different types of drugs, 10,340 weapons, and arrested 15,640 people for violence related to drug trafficking,” and added that “70% of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country.” She also suggested that Mexico would retaliate with tariffs of its own if the U.S. imposed tariffs on Mexico.

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau did not go that far but talked to Trump shortly after the social media post. The U.S. is Canada’s biggest trading partner, and a 25% tariff would devastate its economy. The premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, seemed to try to keep her province’s oil out of the line of fire by agreeing with Trump that the Canadian government should work with him and adding, “The vast majority of Alberta’s energy exports to the US are delivered through secure and safe pipelines which do not in any way contribute to these illegal activities at the border.”

Trudeau has called an emergency meeting with Canada’s provincial premiers tomorrow to discuss the threat.

Spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington Liu Pengyu simply said: “No one will win a trade war or a tariff war” and “the idea of China knowingly allowing fentanyl precursors to flow into the United States runs completely counter to facts and reality.”

In contrast to Trump’s sudden social media posts that threaten global trade and caused a frenzy today, President Joe Biden this evening announced that, after months of negotiations, Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. and France, to take effect at 4:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday. “This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities,” Biden said.

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah attacked Israel shortly after Hamas’s attack of October 7, 2023. Fighting on the border between Israel and Lebanon has turned 300,000 Lebanese people and 70,000 Israelis into refugees, with Israel bombing southern Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah’s tunnel system and killing its leaders. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,000 people and injured more than 13,000, while CBS News reports that about 90 Israeli soldiers and nearly 50 Israeli civilians have been killed in the fighting. Under the agreement, Israel’s forces currently occupying southern Lebanon will withdraw over the next 60 days as Lebanon’s army moves in. Hezbollah will be kept from rebuilding.

According to Laura Rozen in her newsletter Diplomatic, before the agreement went into effect, Israel increased its airstrikes in Beirut and Tyre.

When he announced the deal, Biden pushed again for a ceasefire in Gaza, whose people, he said, “have been through hell. Their…world is absolutely shattered.” Biden called again for Hamas to release the more than 100 hostages it still holds and to negotiate a ceasefire. Biden said the U.S. will “make another push with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Israel, and others to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with the hostages released and the end to the war without Hamas in power.”

Today’s announcement, Biden said, brings closer the realization of his vision for a peaceful Middle East where both Israel and a Palestinian state are established and recognized, a plan he tried to push before October 7 by linking Saudi Arabia’s normalization of relations with Israel to a Palestinian state. Biden has argued that such a deal is key to Israel’s long-term security, and today he pressed Israel to “be bold in turning tactical gains against Iran and its proxies into a coherent strategy that secures Israel’s long-term…safety and advances a broader peace and prosperity in the region.”

“I believe this agenda remains possible,” Biden said. “And in my remaining time in office, I will work tirelessly to advance this vision of—for an integrated, secure, and prosperous region, all of which…strengthens America’s national security.”

“Today’s announcement is a critical step in advancing that vision,” Biden said. “It reminds us that peace is possible.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #American History #justice #bribes #billionaires #rule of law #plunder #economic madness #tariffs #deportation

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scotianostra · 1 month ago

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Happy 63rd birthday to The Proclaimers Charlie and Craig Reid born on 5th March 1962.

The twins were born in Leith's Eastern General Hospital but It's not known if the sun was shining at the time.

Growing up in Edinburgh, Cornwall, and the Fife town Auchtermuchty, they listened to early rock & roll and country, gravitating toward artists like Jerry Lee Lewis and Hank Williams. After playing in various punk bands during their school years, they formed The Proclaimers in 1983 and quickly developed a regional fan base with a particularly devoted following in Inverness. As an acoustic duo singing -style harmonies in the mid-‘80s.

After touring with the Housemartins the Scottish duo were signed by Chrysalis records, they were immediately compared to the Everly Brothers. Considering their energetic, melodic folk-rock, the comparison made some sense, even though the Proclaimers didn’t really sound like the Everlys. Instead, the band was a post-punk pop band, aggressively displaying their thick accents on sweet, infectiously melodic songs about love, politics, and life in Scotland. After two albums in the late '80s,This Is the Story and Sunshine on Leith, the second featured one of my fave songs by the twins, My Old Friend The Blues, a Steve Earle song about depression.Sunshine on Leith has been certified multi-Platinum in Australia and Canada, selling over 2 million copies worldwide, including around 700,000 in the United States. Even if you are not a Hibs fan, most of you will admire the rendition belted out by their fans, it's one of the best anthems in world football in my opinion.

The band disappeared for several years, suffering from personal problems and severe writer’s block. When their 1988 song “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” was used in the 1993 film Benny & Joon, the duo began to receive massive radio airplay in America, sending them into the Top Ten in the U.S., as well as the rest of the world; it was their first taste of worldwide success.

Luckily, the band was close to completing their third album at the time, Hit the Highway, leaving them in a position to capitalise on their success. The single Let’s Get Married received little attention, and the band pretty much disappeared in the eyes of the general public, but diehard fans like myself knew they were special and still had loads to offer.

They made various contributions to several movie soundtracks – Dumb & Dumber and Bottle Rocket – during the latter part of the decade, but family priorities took full scale.

The new millennium gave us a much more fresh sounding Proclaimers. They inked a new U.S. deal with Nettwerk, and Persevere marked Craig and Charlie Reid’s fourth album, and my favourite. It was a return to form; singing about the grim and glory of their native Scotland, but also a sign of the prime of life, my pick of the album being Scotland’s Story which drew parallels between historical migrations to Scotland and arrivals of more recent immigrants.

2022 saw the twins release their 13th studio album, What The Audience Knew, they have also released three compilation albums and continue to record and tour, although there are no concert dates for The Proclaimers scheduled in 2025. The are often seen, mainly separately, stoating about Edinburgh, most often around the Tollcross area.

I have chosen a great song, Life with you, from 2007 album of the same name.

#scotland #scottish #history #edinburgh #Fife #Hibernian FC #Singers #musicians #Youtube

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justinspoliticalcorner · 1 month ago

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Stephen Robinson at Public Notice:

In his own twisted way, Donald Trump has become a unifying figure. He’s more politically divisive than ever, but his outright attacks on liberal democracy everywhere have managed to rally America’s traditional allies against a common threat — one he sees when he looks in the mirror. After the shameful Oval Office ambush of President Volodymyr Zelenksyy, Trump announced he was suspending aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, thus aiding in Putin’s project of subjugating his neighbor. (Trump has since walked those measures back.) He escalated his trade war against Mexico and Canada, our closest trading partners, and incessantly talked about making Canada “the 51st state.” He told Congress he’s going to “get” Greenland “one way or the other,” then effectively killed NATO by announcing he’s not committed to defending America’s NATO allies. [...] All of that took place in the span of a single week, but Trump’s actions aren’t just random idiocy. They form a pattern of outright hostility and mounting aggression toward America’s closest friends.

Don’t mess with Canada

Trump claims that imposing sweeping 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada would hold them “accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.” This rationale is bogus, particularly in Canada’s case, as just 0.2 percent of fentanyl that enters the US is seized at the northern border. The reality is that Trump’s economic assault on Canada is an escalation of his own expansionist ambitions. Trump has argued for months now that the US should annex Canada, and immiserating the country economically would be one way to make it ripe for the picking. White House officials have even started using rhetoric that evokes war-mongering from the George W. Bush administration during the run up to the second Iraq war. Not so long ago, Canadian officials insisted that Trump was “telling jokes” and “teasing us” with his talk of taking over Canada. But no longer. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy,” then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference earlier this month. “Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that’s never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.” [...]

But Trump clearly understands little about the Canadian people if he thought his trade war would make Canada surrender to his will. In fact, he’s united different factions of the country around shared opposition to him. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rose to prominence as a populist who supported the 2022 anti-government “Freedom Convoy” protests. He’s staked out positions on trans issues, immigration, and crime that closely align with Trump’s, and he said that “after eight years of Trudeau, life is increasingly a living hell for the working-class people of this country.” But Trump’s trade war has torched any budding bromance with Poilievre, who said Trump "just stabbed America's best friend in the back.” As Trump’s tariff debacle drags on, Poilievre’s rhetoric has grown even sharper. “My message to the president is this: Knock if off. Stop the chaos. You are hurting your workers, your consumers and most immediately destroying trillions of dollars of wealth on your own stock market,” he said.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, leader of the United Conservative Party, has also consistently opposed Trudeau’s policies, particularly on covid and vaccine mandates. She attempted to get on Trump’s good side by visiting Mar-a-Lago in January. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, she personally blamed Trudeau for putting Canada in a difficult position with the current administration. But once Trump actually started acting on his threats, Smith publicly expressed support for Trudeau’s strong response to Trump’s “foolish” tariffs. “Now is the time for us to unite as a province and a country,” she said. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been similarly moved by Trump’s imperialist rhetoric. Ford said he was happy Trump won last November, but he’s singing a different tune now. While doing the rounds on cable news this week, Ford called Trump’s trade war on Canada “crazy” and blamed him for the economic damage it will do on both sides of the border. Trudeau’s successor as leader of the Liberal Party and the incoming prime minister, Mark Carney, has picked up where his predecessor left off. He said this week he’ll meet with Trump, but only after the president shows “respect for Canadian sovereignty.” During his first speech as Liberal leader, he brought up the orange menace to boos. [...]

A toxic brand

Trump isn’t just increasingly loathed in Canada and Europe — he’s severely damaged the relationship between America and its allies. Polls show that since Trump took office again, roughly a third of people in Germany (32 percent), France (34 percent) and the UK (37 percent) hold a positive opinion of the United States. Now, only one in six Germans consider the US a partner they can trust, and 75 percent of Germans polled believe that NATO members can’t rely on the US to uphold its Article 5 commitments. Trump’s unwarranted attacks on Canada have galvanized support for the current government and fueled a stunning political comeback for the Liberal Party. Liberals tailed Conservatives by more than 20 points just six weeks ago, but new polling shows the parties now effectively tied heading toward elections later this year.

Donald Trump has managed to get the free world to unite together… and not in the way he would want it. The free world is uniting against his bellicose ways towards the USA’s traditional allies in Canada, Mexico, and many European nations.

#Foreign Policy #Donald Trump #Canada #Mexico #The White House #China #Greenland #NATO #Trade Wars #Annexation of Canada

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songsofbloodandwater · 6 months ago

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Settlers and newcomers, Black and Indigenous: the history we learn in elementary school is rooted in explorers and settlers. We learn about brave colonists fighting for freedom. [...] We all learn about how these countries were the ones that ended slavery. Somehow in this history, the very people who created the problem are transformed into the ones who saved us. Together we learn about immigrants and refugees who came here in search of something better and built a great country. The United States and Canada are positioned as communities of safety and refuge for newcomers leaving behind or sublimating their old identities and becoming American or Canadian. These histories become central truths, and when other histories are told or when somebody makes a racist remark, Americans say with surprise, “That’s not who we are!” Your collective memory is filled with stories about cooperation and communities, brave people banding together to defend their home and working together to create something for everyone. Our collective memory is filled with other stories. Other centers. [Our collective memories contain stories of displacement and disruption, occupation and domination. Even when we try to fit in, when we try to assimilate, we aren’t truly accepted.] Sometimes the center is created simply through the act of revolving around it. What if the things you have been told are not who you are?

— Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022) by Patty Krawec

#I LOVE the way she walks you through unlearning all that in this book it's a masterpiece #Becoming Kin #Patty Krawec #decolonize #decolonization #LAND BACK #indigenous ways #white guilt #quote #quotes #my notes

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npzlawyersforimmigration · 6 months ago

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How to Create Your USCIS Online Account: A Step-by-Step Guide

https://visaserve.com/how-to-create-your-uscis-online-account-a-step-by-step-guide/

#USCIS #ImmigrationHelp #myUSCIS #ImmigrationLaw #OnlineAccount #ImmigrationSupport #VisaProcess #USCISAccount #ImmigrationTips #SecureYourAccount #USCISGuidelines #VisaApplication

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website-enjoyer · 8 months ago

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if there is one thing i would like to get through the head of other people within the imperial core, it is this:

part 1: social democracy

because the countries of the imperial core are capitalist, most people in them have the experience of being exploited for a paycheck at work and living in a society full of inequality and injustice. this makes it easy for people to intuitively and organically arrive at the position that there should be higher taxes on the ultra-rich within the existing political and economic system, with those taxes being used to fund social programs like healthcare, education, or a universal basic income. it would create more well-paying, unionized, government jobs. this political position tends to go together with the desire to reduce inequality on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexuality, immigration status, and so on. people know that they are experiencing inequality and injustice, and they see a way to decrease it: get politicians to tax the rich and fund social programs, either by pressuring the existing ones or electing new ones. they generally want more social equality for their neighbours too. let's call this political program social democracy.

when climate disasters, economic crises, mass protests, or other social upheavals raise the question of replacing the entire political and economic system with something else, social democracy argues that it will give regular people more breathing room to survive, so that we all have more time and energy to organize for a more radical change. when capitalists demand austerity and the right wing aims to achieve it by slashing existing public services and replacing them with a more empowered patriarchal family unit, the defensive version of social democracy arises—which argues that corporate taxes shouldn't be lowered further, that funding for social programs shouldn't be cut even more, and that politicians need to be elected or pressured to stop the damage. these are some of the ways that advocates for social democracy adapt their argument to changing conditions.

it all makes intuitive sense, but it leaves out one important dimension of economic relations: the international dimension. in the imperial core, it is easier to remain ignorant about the international side of capitalism, because by definition the consequences of this side are mostly felt by people in other countries. it's different from the exploitation and inequality that we directly experience ourselves. to fully evaluate social democracy as a political program, we need to clear up our ignorance about the international side of capitalism. that means learning about imperialism.

part 2: imperialism

in imperialist countries, the export of capital acquires exceptional economic importance compared to the export of commodities. in other words: monopoly capitalists can make more money by setting up facilities in other countries and exploiting workers at them to a higher degree, rather than by selling domestically produced commodities on the world market.

take the mining sector in canada for example, which is a major part of the canadian economy. almost half of the world's publicly traded mining companies are based in canada. some of their activity does involve mining in canada and selling the products globally: mining is the single largest shipping sector by volume for canada's railways and ports, and minerals and metals accounted for 21% of goods exported from canada in 2022. however, in that same year, only 33% of assets (such as mines) owned by canadian mining companies were located in canada. most of them are located in latin america and africa, where they perpetrate extreme exploitation and horrific violence against workers, indigenous nations, and the ecosystem to an even greater extent than they do domestically.

so, in the canadian mining sector, the export of capital plays a more important role than the export of commodities, which is one of the key traits of an imperialist economy. another key trait of the imperialist stage of capitalism is the merging of industrial capital and banking capital into finance capital, which we also see in the case of canada's mining sector. for example: RBC, the largest bank in canada, is also the largest shareholder in Nutrien, the largest mining company in canada.

while canadian mining companies make up a large part of canada's internal economy—exploiting workers, destroying ecosystems, and stealing land from indigenous nations—two times as many of their assets are devoted to carrying out these same activities in other countries under worse conditions, all for the profit of canadian financiers. this is what is meant by imperialist wealth.

part 3: internationalism

so having looked at an example of imperialism, we can return to the question of evaluating social democracy. if higher taxes on the ultra-rich are used to fund more social programs in a given country, but those ultra-rich take most of their profits in the first place by exploiting workers to an even higher degree in other countries, then this political program does not actually reduce inequality—it only redistributes a larger cut of imperialist plunder to the citizens of the imperial core.

it does not actually give most regular people more breathing room to survive, or reduce the harm they experience, or give them more time and energy to organize for more radical change—the majority of the regular people in the equation are revealed to be living in other countries, experiencing just as much exploitation and receiving no social benefit regardless of the tax rate for the rich in the imperial core. these justifications are revealed to only serve the interests of imperial core citizens, expanding and entrenching their reliance on imperialist wealth to increase their standard of living at the continued expense of the rest of the world.

once exposed to these facts about social democracy, people in the imperial core who have organically reached it as their political position—through their own experiences of exploitation and injustice—have two options:

to maintain the same political program of electing or pressuring politicians to tax the rich for more social programs, but to admit that its basis of collective self-interest is the country of which they are a citizen, not the international working class. it means entering into a deal with the country's ultra-rich for a bigger cut of their profits, in exchange for maintaining the current imperialist system which dominates other countries under their control—including through war. ideologically, this means embracing nationalism—and by extension, the racism on which the whole system is built.

to seek a new political program of fighting against the whole capitalist imperialist system, overthrowing the control of the ultra-rich through socialist revolutions, with an expanded basis of collective self-interest in the international working class. it means supporting national liberation movements that are decried and villainized by your own government, with the understanding that your greatest oppressors gain most of their material power to control all of you by oppressing people in other countries. ideologically, this means proletarian internationalism.

the first option represents short-term self-interest. it's a less risky fight, and it might achieve somewhat better conditions for those pursuing it, but those gains can be lost again at any time because ultimately the capitalists remain in control of the system—and if keeping your standard of living high stops being the cheapest way to keep you under control, they'll switch to direct repression without pause. the second option represents long-term self-interest. it's a much bigger struggle, and it involves a more challenging transformation of your life and of society, but the people of imperialized nations around the world will be fighting it whether you're with or against them—and no empire lasts forever.

so if you've read to the end of this post, social democrat of the imperial core, which will it be: socialism or barbarism?

#imperialism #social democracy #death to canada #words #i dont wanna see any more posts about ubi on my dash lol #ubi

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allthecanadianpolitics · 7 months ago

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The federal government is expanding a list of Iranian officials that are inadmissible to Canada. Ottawa first introduced measures under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) in November 2022 that barred a number of senior Iranian officials from entering Canada. Those measures applied to people who were senior members of the Iranian government from November 2019 onward. But the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced Sunday that its pushing that date back to June 23, 2003.

Tagging:: @newsfromstolenland

#Iran #justin trudeau #cdnpoli #canadian politics #canada #canadian news #canadian

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fatehbaz · 2 years ago

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The SAWP is a temporary labour program that brings foreign workers to Canada for periods between six weeks and eight months annually [...], paving the way for the recruitment of Jamaican workers as well as workers from other Caribbean countries like Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados [beginning] in 1968. [...] The SAWP has been a resounding success for Canadian growers because offshore indentured workers enable agribusiness to expand and secure large profits. Being indentured means that migrant farm workers are bound to specific employers by contractual agreements [...]. First, they are legally prevented from unionizing. [...] Additionally, because they are bound to specific employers, they must ensure that the employer is happy with them [...]. For instance, migrant farm workers are forced to agree to growers’ requests for long working hours, labour through the weekend, suppress complaints and avoid conflicts, if they want to stay out of “trouble” [...]. In “Canada’s Creeping Economic Apartheid”, Grace Galabuzi shows that the Canadian Government’s immigration policy is, in reality, a labour market immigration policy [...].

[Text by: Julie Ann McCausland. "Racial Capitalism, Slavery, Labour Regimes and Exploitation in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program". Caribbean Quilt Volume 5. 2020. Paragraph contractions added by me.]

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A big finding that came out of the oral history interviews was a much richer tapestry of worker protest than has previously been documented. Speaking with workers – including former workers back in their home countries of Jamaica and Barbados – allowed me to hear the types of stories that often don’t make it into archives or newspapers. Interviewees told me stories about wildcat strikes, about negotiating conditions with employers, and also about protesting their home governments’ role in organizing the migrant labour program. [...] [T]hings did not have to be this way; our current world was anything but inevitable. [...] [But] economic forces transformed tobacco farming (and agriculture writ large), [...] leaving mega-operations in their wake. [...] [L]arge operations could afford [...] bringing in foreign guestworkers. The attraction of foreign workers was not due to labour shortages, but instead in their much higher degree of exploitability, given the strict nature of their contracts and the economic compulsion under which they pursued overseas migrant labour. [...] Ontario’s tobacco belt (located in between Hamilton and London, on the north shore of Lake Erie), was from the 1920s to 1980s one the most profitable sectors in Canadian agriculture and the epicentre of migrant labour in the country [...]. In most years, upwards of 25,000 workers were needed to bring in the crop. [...]

[The words of Edward Dunsworth. Text is a transcript of Dunsworth's responses in an interview conducted and transcribed by Andria Caputo. 'Faculty Publication Spotlight: Ed Dunsworth's "Harvesting Labour"'. Published online at McGill Faculty of Arts. 15 December 2022. At: mcgill.ca/arts/article/faculty-publication-spotlight-ed-dunsworths-harvesting-labour. Some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

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Jamaican agricultural workers say they face conditions akin to “systematic slavery” on Canadian farms, as they call on Jamaica to address systemic problems in a decades-old, migrant labour programme in Canada. In a letter sent to Jamaica’s minister of labour and social security earlier this month [August 2022], workers [...] said they have been “treated like mules” on two farms in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. [...] The workers [...] are employed under [...] (SAWP), which allows Canadian employers to hire temporary migrant workers from Mexico and 11 countries in the Caribbean [...]. “We work for eight months on minimum wage and can’t survive for the four months back home. The SAWP is exploitation at a seismic level. Employers treat us like we don’t have any feelings, like we’re not human beings. We are robots to them. They don’t care about us.” Between 50,000 and 60,000 foreign agricultural labourers come to Canada each year on temporary permits [...]. Canada exported more than $63.3bn ($82.2bn Canadian) in agriculture and food products in 2021 – making it the fifth-largest exporter of agri-food in the world. [...]

[Text by: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours. "Jamaican farmworkers decry ‘seismic-level exploitation’ in Canada". Al Jazeera (English). 24 August 2022.]

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In my home country, St. Lucia, we believe in a fair day’s pay [...]. In Canada, we give more than a fair day’s work, but we do not get a fair day’s pay. [...] I worked in a greenhouse in [...] Ontario, growing and harvesting tomatoes and organic sweet peppers for eight months of the year, from 2012 to 2015. [...] In the bunkhouse where I lived, there were typically eight workers per room. Newly constructed bunkhouses typically have up to fourteen people per room. [...] I also received calls from workers (especially Jamaicans) who were either forbidden – or strongly discouraged – from leaving the farm property. This outrageous overreach of employer control meant that workers had difficulty sending money home, or buying necessary items [...]. [O]n a lot of farms, [...] workers’ movement and activity is policed by their employers. The government knows about this yet fails to act.

[Text are the words of Gabriel Allahdua. Text from a transcript of an interview conducted by Edward Dunworth. '“Canada’s Dirty Secret”: An Interview with Gabriel Allahdua about migrant farm workers’ pandemic experience'. Published by Syndemic Magazine, Issue 2: Labour in a Treacherous Time. 8 March 2022. Some paragraph contractions added by me.]

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The CSAWP is structured in such a way as to exclude racialized working class others from citizen-track entry into the country while demarcating them to a non-immigrant status as temporary, foreign and unfree labourers. The CSAWP is [...] a relic of Canada’s racist and colonial past, one that continues unimpeded in the present age [...]. [T]he Canadian state has offered a concession to the agricultural economic sector in the way of an ambiguous legal entity through which foreign agricultural workers are legally disenfranchised and legally denied citizenship rights.

[Text by: Adam Perry. "Barely legal: Racism and migrant farm labour in the context of Canadian multiculturalism". Citizenship Studies, 16:2, 189-201. 2012.]

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Other publications:

Smith. 'Troubling “project Canada”: the Caribbean and the making of “unfree migrant labour”’. Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 40, number 2. 2015.

Choudry and Thomas. "Labour struggles for workplace justice: migrant and immigrant worker organizing in Canada". Journal of Industrial Relations Volume 55, number 2. 2013.

Harsha Walia. "Transient servitude: migrant labour in Canada and the apartheid of citizenship". Race & Class 52, number 1. 2010.

Beckford. "The experiences of Caribbean migrant farmworkers in Ontario, Canada". Social and Economic Studies Volume 65, number 1. 2016.

Edward Dunsworth. Harvesting Labour: Tobacco and the Global Making of Canada’s Agricultural Workforce (2022).

Edward Dunsworth. “‘Me a free man’: resistance and racialisation in the Canada-Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program,” Oral History Volume 49, number 1. Spring 2021.

#abolition #ecology #imperial #tidalectics #archipelagic thinking #caribbean #intimacies of four continents #carceral geography

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the-most-humble-blog · 19 days ago

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🚨 BEFORE & AFTER THE LAKEN RILEY ACT: A Red Pill Checklist for Anyone Still Crying About “Open Borders” 🚨💀

💀 **REBLOG and Screenshot this before it mysteriously violates “community guidelines”**

🩸 “Treat non-citizens like Americans”? — We tried. One murdered a young nurse on campus.

Now it's: Fck around. Find out.* 🩸

📌 BEFORE Reading the Laken Riley Act:

“All people deserve compassion! Treat non-citizens the same — or even better! No one is illegal! ICE is fascist!”

📌 AFTER Reading the Laken Riley Act:

“Fck around and get deported. Don’t like it? GTFOH. The bus leaves at dawn.”*

Let’s start with the hard truth. Laken Riley was a 22-year-old American nursing student, jogging on her college campus in Georgia. She didn’t know her life would end that day. But she never got to finish her run — because a man who should never have been in this country murdered her.

His name? Jose Ibarra. His legal status? Illegal alien. His criminal record? Already caught shoplifting. Did ICE pick him up? No. Was he deported? No. Did Laken Riley pay for that failure with her life? Yes.

And now, thanks to President Donald J. Trump, this doesn’t just become another sob story on Twitter. It becomes federal law.

🧨 THE LAKEN RILEY ACT: STRAIGHT FACTS, NO CHASER 🧨

Signed into law on January 29, 2025

Trump’s first signature law of his second presidency

Backed by both Republicans and Democrats

Passed House: 263-156

Passed Senate: 64-35

46 House Democrats, 12 Senate Democrats defected to vote yes

Mandates ICE detention + repatriation of illegals who commit:

Theft

Burglary

Larceny

Shoplifting

Assault on police

ANY violent crime causing serious harm or death

Grants states power to sue DHS for failure to detain or deport

Supported by the Riley family, who watched the bill become law

🚫“BUT THAT’S TOO HARSH!”

Let’s break that toddler-tier take with a statistical curb stomp:

📊 DATA VS. DELUSION:

Over 70% of Americans now say the government is doing too little to control the border. (Gallup, 2024)

2.4 million border encounters in FY2023, breaking all previous records. (CBP Data)

Of 100,000+ non-citizens released into the U.S. in 2022, fewer than 10% showed up to court. (DOJ internal memo leak, 2023)

ICE “detainers” — requests to hold illegal immigrants in custody — were ignored by sanctuary cities over 10,000 times in 2023. (Center for Immigration Studies)

💀 HOW MANY LAKENS DID IT TAKE?

Just one.

One innocent girl, murdered by someone we had in our hands. And we let him go.

Because someone thought detaining him was too mean. Because someone thought "compassion" should override law. Because you can't spell DEI without D.E.A.T.H.

📜 THE “NON-CITIZEN PRIVILEGE” CHECKLIST 🔥

Here’s what illegals and non-natives could do before the Laken Riley Act:

✅ Enter the country illegally ✅ Commit theft, shoplifting, battery ✅ Live in sanctuary cities with immunity ✅ Get released instead of detained ✅ Lecture Americans on “morals” ✅ Demand free housing, healthcare, legal aid ✅ Vote illegally in local elections in places like NYC ✅ Tweet “F*ck America” from subsidized Wi-Fi

Now?

❌ Try that again. You’ll be calling your cousin in Caracas by sundown.

👀 “I’m scared! What if I’m next?”

You’re not. If you’re a legal American citizen — you’re not next.

But if you’re in this country on borrowed time, with stolen benefits, a criminal record, and a mouth full of anti-American bullshit?

You are next.

🛑 DEAR NON-NATIVES: THE CANDY IS OVER

You came here because your homeland was a dumpster fire. We opened the door. You came for opportunity. We gave it. You came for security. We provided it. You got food, water, jobs, and freedom.

And then some of you turned around and sh*t on it.

You trashed the flag. You demanded we change. You mocked our history. You robbed, assaulted, raped, murdered — and claimed it was our fault.

We gave you a chance.

Now we give you a choice:

👉 Be lawful. Be grateful. Assimilate. 👉 Or pack up your dusty duffel and pray the paperwork clears in Canada.

🧠 “But deportation is racist!”

So is ignoring the murder of a 22-year-old girl because it doesn’t fit your activist narrative.

So is pretending national sovereignty is white supremacy.

So is silencing working-class Americans who have to live with the fallout you voted for from your MacBook in a gated community.

THE TRUTH YOU DON’T SAY AT DINNER — BUT THINK EVERY DAY:

“Good riddance, assholes.” And now the law agrees.

📦 HANDY DEPORTATION CHECKLIST FOR NON-NATIVES WHO WANT TO F.A.F.O.:

🔲 Have you committed a violent crime? 🔲 Shoplifted? 🔲 Assaulted a cop? 🔲 Preached against the U.S. Constitution on TikTok while on a student visa? 🔲 Demanded we abolish ICE while taking Pell Grants?

Congrats. You’re deportation-eligible.

Here’s your 1-way ticket to the slums you fled.

🧨 TL;DR: IT’S NOT JUST “AMERICA FIRST” ANYMORE.

It’s AMERICANS ONLY.

💬 CTA BLOCK – Choose Your Own Rage:

🧠 Reblog if you’re tired of pretending this is complicated. 🔥 Comment if you’ve got the balls to say it out loud. 🛫 Follow if you're ready to join the post-woke renaissance. 🤐 Or stay silent and watch history bulldoze your ideology like it bulldozed Laken’s killer.

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mariacallous · 19 days ago

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If there is one certainty of social media in 2025, it’s this: Rage clicks rule. Hyperbole, hate, cheap shock—it’s all par for the course—and often rewarded with virality.

But Sez Us, an app just launched by veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, believes it’s possible to change that by punishing users who shitpost for the sake of provocation.

The timing may be just right. America is entering an age of oligarchy with a rising wave of right-wing extremism taking hold of global politics. Platforms like Truth Social and X now operate as effective propaganda machines, recasting culture-war issues over immigration, DEI, and trans rights as boogeymen in President Trump’s new vision of America, which is really just a very old version of America. As the next era of social media comes into view, emerging platforms also have an opportunity to rise to the moment. Can Sez Us, which is positioning itself as the antithesis to X, facilitate a better way forward?

“If you bring back responsibility, ownership, and reputation, then suddenly all the incentives that we have in the real world are back,” says Yevgeny Simkin, Sez Us’ cofounder and chief product officer.

Even as online discourse has devolved into rabid spectacle, platforms like Bluesky have shown there is an appetite for a more civil kind of conversation. Rather than boosting any post that’s getting rage clicks, Sez Us uses what its creators call a “reputation engine,” a feature that allows you to rate another user’s posts on the platform across five key areas: approval, influence, insightfulness, relevance, and politeness.

On the app, ratings determine a user’s reputation score and overall visibility. The higher the score, the more reach you have in the community. Users control who replies to them based on a person’s score, with low-scoring users penalized by having less influence. All posts are visible but you can block users from replying to you, for example, if they don’t have high-approval ratings. Ultimately, ratings are designed to deprioritize engagement based around viral moments.

“It’s not about the moderators coming in and saying ‘you’re bad,’” Simkin says. “It’s about the community saying ‘we don’t like what you’re saying.’ Then I know that I have to temper how I say things. I have to be more polite. I have to be less bombastic.”

In the race to perfect social media, there has never been a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to moderation—for those who still bother with it. Scale can make this task even more difficult as a platform’s user base grows. For Simkin and his team, the idea was to build a platform that would “bring to the fore all the ways in which social media should be running rather than the way it has been,” he says. “The camel’s back was broken by the straw of Elon [Musk] buying Twitter,” and suddenly a whole new world seemed possible.

The fracturing of Twitter, since rebranded as X, kicked off an arms race among techies who had all sorts of ideas about the next phase of social media, and how to define it. It was during this period, in 2022, that the concept for Sez Us was born, grounded in the lofty goal of bringing back civil discourse.

Returning constructive debate to online discourse is important to Simkin. “I have a particular view on freedom of expression and freedom of freedom because I’m familiar with what it means not to have either,” he says. In 2022, as the Russia-Ukraine war escalated, Simkin, who was raised in Soviet Russia before immigrating to Canada, built Samizdat Online, an anti-censorship platform that allows citizens in totalitarian societies to read news by banned outlets without fear of being tracked and persecuted.

Similar to Bluesky, another new-ish app that has emerged as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, Sez Us does not own any of your data. It was built using a decentralized social networking protocol, which allows users to move their assets and content across platforms. Bots are kept off the app through mobile verification. Low scores likewise prevent bots and individuals with bad intentions from gaining traction.

“Numbers aren’t the holy grail of this thing,” says Akshay Gupta, the chief operations officer. “Just because you have a massive score doesn't mean you're winning on the platform. It just allows people to know what type of reputation you have.” Even if that is true, reputation scores do ultimately matter in the end. The lower the number, the less reach a user is allowed.

When I mention to Simkin and Gupta that the idea behind its moderation-based scoring reminds me of an episode of Black Mirror, they push back. “We’re not defining what’s civil. It's the Overton window of the community. Whoever is there gets to participate and then those metrics will move,” Simkin says.

Many startup founders have tried, and failed, to design their own version of a digital Elysium. The main obstacle working against emerging social platforms that have launched in the past three years is TikTok. They don’t have its cool, reach, or strange wonder. But that is also their advantage. What the next age of social connection calls for—one of the many things, at least—is not more super platforms but instead purpose-driven communities. It calls for digital rallying grounds of all sorts, ones like Reddit but also like BlackSky, a Bluesky community for Black users, which already mirrors a version of what Sez Us wants to accomplish.

“No new endeavor is going to be dead on out the gate,” Gupta adds. “We’ve got an intention. We have a North Star. And we’re starting to see the behavioral elements of it work. Disagreements are great. We’re not stopping anyone from coming on the platform.” All backgrounds, religious affiliations, and political perspectives are welcome, they say.

It’s hard to know if any of this will work. Right now, Sez Us only has 10,000 active users. And Simkin has measured expectations for what they can accomplish. “I’m not looking to improve humanity,” he says. “That’s somebody else’s job.”

By incentivizing healthy discussion, he says, the plan is “to move technological discourse to a level where people can engage as themselves. The key is to help everybody recognize that we're actually not enemies.” Whether a critical mass of people wants that remains to be seen.

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The Art Of Redemption - Timeline

Okay, so this isn't a timeline strictly for The Art of Redemption. It's more like a timeline for characters that appear in that story as well as in We Are Sugar Valentine, since the two are more than tangentially connected.

We Are Sugar Valentine is taking place in present day (2022-2024) and The Art of Redemption takes place in 2011-2012.

I noticed that several people may have been confused because I tend to jump around a lot between stories and also with random vignettes. It's all perfectly clear in my head, but since nobody else is living in my head, I thought a timeline of important events for all the major characters would help everyone make sense of it.

Anyway, for anyone who's interested, you can find the timeline under the cut:

1950

Nikolai Pavlenko (Nikolai’s grandfather) - 1 December 1950

1951

Stanislav Kovac - 3 June 1951

Milena Novotný (later Kovac) - 6 June 1951

1963

Jason Jones (brother of Beth-Anne) - 26 August 1963

1966

Elena Federova (later Pavlenko) - 13 January 1966

Mikhail Pavlenko (Nikolai’s father) - 28 December 1966

1968

Stan comes to Canada from Czech Republic to train with a renowned figure skating coach and to compete at ISU Senior level

Milena comes to Canada from Czech Republic as part of a foreign exchange student program

Stan and Milena meet at their high school

1970

Seong Min-Joon (a.k.a. George Seong) - 13 May 1970

Beth-Anne Dorothy Jones (born Jennifer Elizabeth Anne Jones) - 30 October 1970

1972

Stan wins an Olympic silver medal

1973

Milena finishes her undergraduate degree and begins law school

Stan and Milena become Canadian citizens

1976

Stan asks Milena to marry him

Milena graduates from law school

Abby Jones (sister of Beth-Anne) - 19 August 1976

Kim In-Hae (later known as Evie Seong) - 5 November 1976

1977

Stan and Milena get married on Valentine’s Day

Peace Adebayo - 25 June 1977

1978

Sae (Sarah) Ishida - 21 July 1978

1979

Stan & Milena’s daughter Alžbeta is born

Stan retires from competing and decides to pursue coaching as a profession

1980

Satoru (Stephen) Fujikawa - 16 January 1980

1981

Beth-Anne is put in foster care in April when she ends up in the hospital after being seriously injured by her mother

Jason turns 18 in August and becomes Beth-Anne's guardian

Jason and Beth-Anne's mother Claudia tells them their sister Abby is deceased and they try to find out if this is true, but the Department of Community Services won't give Jason any information

Jason and Beth-Anne experience several months of homelessness

1982

Beth-Anne's coach, Nancy Rogers, lets Jason and Beth-Anne move in with her until Jason gets a job and the siblings find a place of their own

Nancy helps Beth-Anne and Jason track down their father. He doesn't want contact with them but he sends them money each month.

Beth-Anne is able to resume skating

Christian Lindeman - 11 April 1982

1983

Hunter MacKay - 18 March 1983

Nikolai’s grandfather and parents immigrate to Canada six months before Nikolai and Natascha are born

Nikolai and Natascha Pavlenko - 18 December 1983

1985

Anna-Valentina Baranova (Anya Pavlenko) - 22 April 1985

Vivienne Louise (Ginger) Holmes - 14 September 1985

Juliet Cole - 8 October 1985

1987

Viktoriya (Vika) Vasilieva - 26 February 1987

Stan becomes Beth-Anne's coach

1988

Beth-Anne legally changes her name to Beth-Anne Dorothy Jones

Mikhaïl (Mishka) Vasiliev - 10 February 1988

1990

Mishka and Vika are taken away from their biological parents due to neglect and unsafe living conditions, and placed with the Vasiliev family. They are adopted by Dr. and Mrs. Vasiliev later that year.

1991

Beth-Anne wins gold at Skate Canada and eventually goes on to win bronze at the World Championship

Death of Jason Jones

Beth-Anne is in an accident during the off-season that ends her competitive skating career

Stan and Milena take Beth-Anne into their home while she recovers from her injuries

1992

Beth-Anne is sufficiently recovered from her accident to move out of Stan and Milena's house and go forward with her life, and she decides to go to university. She also decides to keep skating, even if she can no longer do it competitively

Grandpa Nikolai, Mikhail and Elena become Canadian citizens

1994

Nikolai competes in his first ISU event, in the Novice division, and wins silver

Nikolai’s grandfather gives him Champion the teddy bear

1996

Beth-Anne graduates with a degree in education and gets a job at an all-girls school as a physical education teacher

Beth-Anne stops skating at the Brindleton Bay Skating Club because seeing her friends and rivals continue to get ready for competitions while she just skates during community ice times is too painful and stress-inducing for her

Ginger competes in her first ISU event, in the Novice division

Brett Andrew Eriksson - 25 April 1996

1998

Evie & George Seong immigrate to Canada in January

Sadie Hae-Won Seong - 29 November 1998

1999

Competitive skier Stephen Fujikawa marries J-pop idol Sae (Sarah Ishida)

Nikolai’s family leaves Ontario and moves to Nova Scotia (Brindleton Bay is a fictional bedroom community of Halifax NS)

Ginger comes to Canada from the UK specifically to train with Stan

Stan also becomes Nikolai’s coach

Nikolai meets Ginger, Anya, Hunter, Juliet and Christian

2000

Nikolai adopts Tangerine the cat

Eden Yeon-Jin Seong & Charles Ki-Yeon (Charlie) Seong - 23 May 2000

Sakuharu (Haru) Abe - 11 June 2000

Stan convinces Beth-Anne to come back to the Brindleton Bay Skating Club

Beth-Anne meets Nikolai for the first time and she becomes his coach

Sebastian Fujikawa - 9 September 2000

2001

Haru’s mother passes away from a drug overdose. Haru is raised by his maternal grandparents

Nikolai wins gold at Skate Canada when he wasn't even expected to place in the top ten, much less the top three. Stan shoots the iconic "forever" photo of Nikolai and Beth-Anne. Nikolai gives Beth-Anne his medal

Stan and Milena’s grandson Marek is born in November (future figure skater)

2002

Stephen wins an Olympic gold medal in giant slalom

Sarah goes on tour and there's a scandal when someone starts a rumour about her and her bodyguard. It gets massive publicity and Stephen doesn't know what to think.

Peace immigrates from Nigeria to Canada with her children Mercy (3) and Praise (1).

2004

Nikolai wins his first World Figure Skating Championship medal (silver)

2006

Nikolai wins his first World Championship gold medal

Stephen and Sarah divorce, and it’s messy. It's also highly publicized due to their respective statuses in sports and entertainment

Stephen is granted full custody of his son Sebastian

Mishka gets drafted into the NHL and begins his pro hockey career with an American team

Beth-Anne becomes Brett's coach

2007

Stephen retires from his athletic career and joins his father and aunt in the family's sports equipment company

Stephen adopts Sofia. She is seven, the same age as Sebastian

2008

Nikolai and Anya get married

Natascha marries local construction worker, Alex MacDonald

2010

Nikolai wins his second World Championship gold medal in a row and his third Worlds gold overall

Ginger also wins gold at Worlds

Ginger becomes a Canadian citizen

2011 (The Art Of Redemption)

Nikolai seriously injures his knee while competing at the four Continents Championship in January

Beth-Anne lets Nikolai stay at her place while he's recovering from his injury and dealing with his marital issues

Beth-Anne and Peace meet

Eden and Nikolai meet

Nikolai decides he wants to be a coach

Brett wins a medal in his last competition at Junior level

Beth-Anne decides she wants to find out what really happened to her sister Abby. Stan, Milena and Nikolai support her in her quest.

Anya retires from competition and goes to work with her grandfather in his photography studio

Brett and Nikolai have a one-on-one competition

Nikolai and Anya get divorced

Eden and Sebastian both compete in their first ISU events at Novice level

Haru discovers that despite his learning disability, he's exceptional at writing poetry

2012

Beth-Anne and Peace are in a casual relationship

2013

Ginger retires from competition

Nikolai officially becomes Eden's coach

Ginger has a whirlwind romance with British businessman Liam Harris

Mishka gets traded to the Mariners in a mid-season trade

Mishka and Nikolai meet by chance on Nikolai’s birthday

Ginger and Liam elope at Christmas

2014

Nikolai and Mishka have moved past simple friendship quickly and are in a relationship

Natascha and Alex get divorced. Natascha moves back in with her parents and grandfather

Anya continues to be an unwanted presence in Nikolai's life

Liam convinces Ginger to return to the UK with him

Ginger meets Sebastian and Sofia, who are attending a UK boarding school, and she becomes Sebastian’s coach

Ginger meets Stephen Fujikawa

2015

Eden wins gold at the World Junior Figure Skating Championship

2016

Eden has his debut at Senior level. It doesn't go as well as he expects

Ginger and Liam divorce

Ginger goes to Japan with Sebastian and Sofia at the end of the school year

Stephen offers to let Ginger live in a cottage on his property and Sebastian is thrilled because he gets to live so close to his “bonus mom”

Haru gets recruited as a J-pop trainee while performing at his school's music festival.

2017

After four years together, Nikolai and Mishka part ways, due to a number of issues. They promise to keep in touch, and to try and get back together some day, if and when their lives stabliize

Haru begins his adventure as a trainee and meets future bandmates Ryu, Keigo, Senjiro and Taiji

2018

TheJ-pop group Sugar Valentine debuts. Eden and Charlie are instantly huge fans

2020

Charlie goes to college to study cosmetology and aesthetics and starts taking Japanese classes. His dream is to become a professional stylist in the entertainment industry

Sugar Valentine goes on tour for the first time

2022 (We Are Sugar Valentine)

Charlie is ready to head to Japan to begin his adventure. He and Eden have never been apart, and Eden decides to go to Japan with him. Nikolai is heartbroken at this development, as he and Eden have been together as coach and student for years.

Despite not wanting to be separated from Eden, Nikolai hesitates to go to Japan because he's an extreme homebody and doesn't want to uproot himself from everything familiar in his life

Eden finds a new coach in Japan. It goes absolutely terribly.

Charlie lands his dream job, as part of the stylist team for Sugar Valentine

Haru sees pictures of Eden in Charlie's portfolio and begs to be introduced

Charlie introduces Eden and Haru. They quickly become an item

Nikolai eventually joins Eden in Japan, after learning how badly things are going for Eden. It's a difficult adjustment for Nikolai

Nikolai is delighted to discover that Ginger is coaching Sebastian at the exact rink where Eden is training. They've kept in touch over the years, but the physical distance between them has made things challenging. They waste no time in catching up

Mishka decides he's going to retire after the 2022-23 hockey season. He needs knee surgery that he's put off for too long

Sugar Valentine goes on tour again

Mishka contacts Nikolai and tells him that he's coming to see him for his birthday in December

Mishka gives Nikolai a kitten for his birthday. They name him Boris

Nikolai is juggling Anya's continued presence in his life and his feeling that maybe he and Ginger could be more than friends

Nikolai asks for time, and Mishka vows to wait for him

2023

Ginger and Nikolai experiment with having a relationship beyond friendship. It doesn't work out because as much as they love each other, they realize they'll never get past thinking of each other as siblings.

Eden wins his first World Championship gold medal

Mishka contacts Nikolai and tells him his surgery is scheduled for the first week of June. He asks Nikolai to come home for the summer, to help take care of him while he recovers, and Nikolai agrees.

Mishka moves into Nikolai's house during his recovery

Even though they haven't been together as a couple for several years, both Nikolai and Mishka realize their feelings for each other are just as strong as ever. They pick up right where they left off

Eden comes home around the same time as Nikolai. They mutually decide not to return to Japan.

Haru buys Eden a house in Brindleton Bay

Mishka does not move out of Nikolai's house in August, like they originally planned.

Mishka proposes to Nikolai at Christmas. They plan their wedding for the following summer

2024

Sugar Valentine undertakes their third tour

Haru gives Eden a horse for his birthday. He also gives himself one for his own birthday, which is only 19 days after Eden's

Mishka rescues a horse. He helps Eden and Haru with theirs.

Natascha finally decides it's time to move out of her parents' house and get her own place again

Mishka's sister Vika comes to visit him and Nikolai for the summer

Nikolai's grandfather decides to move into a seniors' community.

Grandpa Nikolai meets someone from his past, and has big feelings about it

Nikolai and Mishka get married in July

#sapphire notes #the art of redemption #theartofredemption #we are sugar valentine #wearesugarvalentine #writing #character timeline #stargazersims

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